{newbie}Powerhouse with flat file back end

[Blue]

G'day Matt

If you are talking about C-ISAM on HP-UX then PowerHouse should work fine
with it.  I have worked on several PowerHouse systems used C-ISAM files in
conjunction with an Oracle DB.  C-ISAM doesn't have the same range of
features as say RMS but I haven't seen any problem with it.

I believe PowerHouse "talks" directly to the files but of course the record
structures have to be defined in the PH dictionary.

Blue

PS. Still looking for work ...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: powerh-l-admin@cube.swau.edu
> [mailto:powerh-l-admin@cube.swau.edu]On Behalf Of BUTLER,MATT
> (A-Roseville,ex1)
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 7:40 PM
> To: 'powerh-l@lists.swau.edu'
> Subject: {newbie}Powerhouse with flat file back end
>
>
> My company is investigating use of a powerhouse application that
> uses a flat
> file back end on HP-UX UNIX.
>
> <questions type=newbie>
> I seem to be the only one that thinks this is a problem.  In this day and
> age this seems pretty archaic to me.  Has anyone had experience
> with such a
> system?  Are there scalability and file locking issues?  What about
> contention and/or possible corruption of files?
>
> Not knowing much about it does PH talk directly to the files?  Or does it
> use something else as an intermediary to handle the I/O?
> </questions>
>
> Thanks
>
> Matt Butler
>
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